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Texas State University has a wonder gallery every semester. This semester we have The Last Supper: 700 Plates Illustrating Final Meals of U.S. Death Row Inmates. This gallery is made by Julie Green. Green was inspired by a section in her local newspaper about the inmates last meal request before execution. Each meal request is a reflection of the diversity that can be found in every prison. Green Plans to extend her gallery and add fifty more plates every year until capital punishment is…

Egypt is one of the oldest civilizations on earth. Ancient Egypt is notorious for its art, science, religion, and cultural aspects. Located in North Africa on the Mediterranean Sea, the civilization thrived from 8000 BC to 30 BC, with the first settlements beginning on the Nile River. The legacy of Ancient Egypt still stands today because of the grandiose arts and contributions to humanity’s greatest works. Considering conflicting expert opinions, the beginnings of the civilization are unclear.…

Formerly known as the Anasazi, the Ancestral Puebloans dominated the present-day Four Corners region of the Southwest from about 500-1250 AD. The Ancestral Puebloans first settled in the plateau area where water was in abundance, initially located at Chaco Canyon, Mesa Verde, and Kayenta. They were basket-makers and hunter-gatherers who eventually migrated across the entire Colorado Plateau, including Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and southwestern Colorado. Around the first millennium BC, the…

I observed about the Craft Studios locations and which areas have the most to create a great visual, I will keep my observations and the scope of my subject to/from the main “workspace” area, instead of both the main workspace and the back storage/kiln room. The reasons for this decision is because of the traffic, for my safety, and because I would rather not bother people while they are creating I believe that the use of descriptive details provides the reader with an in-depth look of the…

My experience with art focus on the three years in high school I took some art class. My freshman year of comprehensive art focused on bookwork. We still did drawings in-between the textbook sessions. Like lighting and shades of objects, such as shapes 2d and 3d perspectives. We continued on to face sketches, which I wasn’t very good at nor did I want to do it as much. My sophomore year of drawing and painting covered several of art forms. Most of the time we copied pictures off of the internet…

In 1975, Allan Gibbard proposed the following example in order to develop his case against Kripke’s theory of rigid designators: Imagine you have in front of you two lumps of clay. One is shaped like the bottom half of a statue; the other shaped like the top half. You take these two lumps and connect them, thus making the statue whole and in effect creating a new object. You name this statue Goliath. However, when you connected these two lumps you also create a new lump (the two lumps put…

Chapter 5 of Ceramics: A Potter’s Handbook covers clay in the studio, stating that, “clay is the basis of everything that the potter makes, yet seldom do we use clay straight from the ground.” This statement sets the reader up for the contents of the chapter, such as clay bodies and preparing clay to be used in the studio. Clay bodies that are perfect for the potter rarely comes ready made from the earth. Though it lacks the ready-made quality, it can be added to get a clay body that is just…

In prehistoric art, the term "Jomon", which means "cord pattern" in Japanese ,refers to the ancient pottery produced by Japan's first Stone Age culture, during the period 14,500 and 1000 BCE. It was named Jomon pottery by the American zoologist Edward S. Morse (1838-1925), who excavated the first known examples of Jomon ceramic art from the Omori shell-mound near Tokyo. Because all the recovered sherds had marks of twisted cords on their exterior surfaces, Morse gave them the name "Jomon". In…

like if they were printed, then painted. The Sculptures that Otero made were from wrought-iron gates that he found on the streets fused with porcelain and unfired clay. The technique he used was so different that studios didn’t allow him to use their kilns so he had to buy his own. These sculptures represented his grandmother’s home. Angel Otero’s collage were made from oil paint and oil paint skins collaged together on canvas. The collages were painted using oil paint, his collages gave out a…

Sculpture is a form of visual art that has been used throughout human history. It involves the process of taking items, and constructing a three dimensional form. People have been applying this form of art when they wanted to praise their gods, leaders, or heroes. Also when they wanted to display their feelings and desires into their work. Some artists even stick items together randomly just to see what the outcome would look like. Woodcarving is a form of art that is cheap, and easily available…